dojo.rpc.RpcService is the base class for RPC services. Currently it uses SMD v.1 descriptors, it will eventually be replaced by dojox.rpc.Service which uses SMD v.2 as described on the SMD proposal document.

This class provide SMD v.1 parsing facilities as well as all hooks to implement RPC services.

If args is a String or an URL, its location is fetched and treated as JSON describing the SMD. If it is an object and contains a smdStr property, it is passed to eval to get the SMD, otherwise we assume that it is an SMD object.

<script type="text/javascript">
var smd = {
serviceUrl: 'myService.do', // Adress of the RPC service end point
timeout: 1000, // Only used if an object is passed to the constructor (!)
// Only used if an object is passed to the constructor (!)
// if true, parameter count of each method will be checked against the
// length of its description's 'parameters' attribute
strictArgChecks: true,
// Methods descriptions
methods: [
name: 'add',
// Array of parameters
// Currently, only its size is used, name & type
// are ignored
parameters: [
{
name: 'p1',
type: 'INTEGER'
},
{
name: 'p2',
type: 'INTEGER'
}
]
]
};
</script>

This SMD describes a single method, add, with two parameters. If add is called with less than two parameters, an error is thrown. The way method name and parameters are transmitted to the end point depends on the service type